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A conversation with John Adams
==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Raised in northeast Philadelphia, Rush's father was a farmer and gunsmith who died when Benjamin was only six years old. His mother supported her family by running a Philadelphia grocery, and [[homeschooled]] Benjamin until age eight, when he was enrolled along with his brother in their uncle Samuel Finley's West Nottingham Academy in Rising Sun, Maryland. At age 13 Benjamin was admitted as a junior to what later became [[Princeton University]]. He graduated at age 14 as its youngest graduate ever, having already mastered its 5-year curriculum that required fluency in [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Latin]].
Raised in northeast Philadelphia, Rush's father was a farmer and gunsmith who died when Benjamin was only six years old. His mother supported her family by running a Philadelphia grocery, and [[homeschooled]] Benjamin until age eight, when he was enrolled along with his brother in their uncle Samuel Finley's West Nottingham Academy in Rising Sun, Maryland. At age 13 Benjamin was admitted as a junior to what later became [[Princeton University]]. He graduated at age 14 as its youngest graduate ever, having already mastered its 5-year curriculum that required fluency in [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Latin]].
==Continental Congress==
Benjamin Rush, like many of the Founders, served during the [[Continental Congress]]. Rush wrote of one time where he let his worries about the war with Britain be openly discussed, where he recalled a conversation with fellow Founder [[John Adams]]:
<blockquote>Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes - if we fear God and repent of our sins." This anecdote will, I hope, teach my boys that it is not necessary to disbelieve Christianity or to renounce morality in order to arrive at the highest political usefulness or fame.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-85UDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT389 In GOD We Trust: George Washington and the Spiritual Destiny of the United States of America]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CWjPAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22if+we+fear+god+and+repent+of+our+sins%22 Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792], p. 534</ref></blockquote>
==Medical career==
==Medical career==